Cursive’s comeback in U.S. public schools continues, even as the digital age reaches new heights and some question whether it's obsolete.

In 2010 the country’s “Common Core” curriculum shunned cursive in favour of keyboard skills, but, since then, more than half ...

For decades, teachers, parents and wider society recognised the importance of good cursive script. Beautiful handwriting has the ability to stop us in our tracks. We notice it, we admire it and many ...

(The Conversation) - Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught ...

Walk into a classroom today, and you will find laptops, tablets, and smartboards where chalk dust used to be. Back-to-school shopping in the 1980s meant something completely different: a very specific ...

BDSM — an acronym for bondage/discipline/sadism/masochism — refers to the act of “intentionally and consensually applying ...

Want to blend in while visiting Europe? If so, there are tons of big and small details to keep in mind. For Americans, that ...

Pass the word folks. The Ohio legislature is in recess. Whew. That’s got to be good news. Maybe this entity hell-bent on wrecking public education can use the recess time for some needed reflection ...

Drunken doodles, misspelled lyrics, and exes carved into their skin forever. A-listers might have millions in the bank, but they aren’t immune to terrible decision making. Before the ...

There’s no sugarcoating it, Ben Franklin’s method of learning to write is hard, but modern writers and scientists agree it works.

With less than a week before students return, Baltimore County Public Schools has filled nearly all of its classroom positions but remains about 50 bus drivers short as Maryland’s third-largest school ...

The decline and fall of Albany’s once-venerable Blue Note vintage record shop, demolished by the city last month, has its ...